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VOLUME 47 | FEBRUARY/MARCH 2019

PIPELINERS H A L L o f F A M E N E W S

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DEPARTMENTS5 Latest Job Reports

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30 Heard On The Line

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34 Obituaries

36 Business Directory

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DisclaimerWhile readers of this publication receive the benefit of our comments, none of the information contained herein constitutes a recommendation from us. Although we do our very best to provide the most accurate information available, the contents of this publication should be used as a guide and not as official information. Universal News, Inc, Pipeliners Hall of Fame News or any employee or representative of either organization can not be held responsible for the content, accuracy, or timeliness of information contained in this publication.

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LATEST JOB REPORTS Progressive Pipeline, ph (601) 693-8777 has been award-ed a contract by Oneok for construction of approximate-ly 50 miles of 20-inch pipeline from Bushton, Kansas to Hutchinson, Kansas. Construction is anticipated to begin in mid-February 2019.

Phillips 66 Co. is building a new pipeline (Gray Oak Pipeline) from West Texas to the Gulf Coast and will cost $2 billion to build. The Gray Oak Pipeline system will have a ca-pacity of 800,000 barrels of crude oil a day from West Texas' Permian Basin and South Texas' Eagle Ford Shale oil field to the Texas Gulf Coast, including Corpus Christi and the area around Sweeny and Freeport. It is reported that Holloman, Corporation, ph (281) 878-2600 and Pumpco, Inc.,(979) 542-9054 were reportedly getting underway in October 2018 with the first portion of the pipeline and MPG Contractors (713) 955-9901 will get underway in March 2019.

Price Gregory, ph (713)780-7500 has been awarded a con-tract by ExxonMobil for construction of approx. 50 miles of 30-inch pipeline near Wink, Texas. Work expected to begin in March 2019.

Magellan will build an approximately 60-mile, 24-inch pipe-line from Wink to Crane, Texas, which serves as an origin to

its Longhorn pipeline. Construction is slated for March 2018. A construction contract is pending.

The Oneok Arbuckle II Pipeline is being constructed by Jomax Construction, ph (620) 792-3686, Venables Con-struction, ph (806) 381-2121 and WHC, Inc., ph (281) 962-2062 to transport unfractionated natural gas liquids (NGLs) from originating from across ONEOK’s supply basins and ex-tensive NGL gathering system in Oklahoma to the company’s storage and fractionation facilities at Mont Belvieu, Texas. The approximately 530-mile, 24- and 30-inch diameter pipeline will have an initial capacity to transport up to 400,000 barrels per day and is expected to be completed in the first quarter 2020. Jomax and Venables are completing. WHC, Inc. has 207 miles of 30-inch left to construct.

Oneok has awarded contracts for the Elk Creek Pipeline. The natural gas Elk Creek Pipeline is a 900 mile, 20-inch pipeline from near ONEOK’s Riverview terminal in eastern Montana to its existing Mid-Continent NGL facilities in Bushton, Kansas. Spreads 1 – 4 are getting underway and are being construct-ed by Jomax Construction (Sp – 1 & 2), ph (620)792-3686 and WB Pipeline LLC (3 & 4), ph (832) 802-4790, Sterling Construction (Spread 5), ph (980) 625-8606 and WHC, Inc (Spread 6), ph (432) 614-6433 (75 miles of 20-inch in Mon-

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LATEST JOB REPORTS LATEST JOB REPORTS

tana). Spreads 5 and 6 are expected to begin in April 2019.

Midship Pipeline Company, LLC is developing a natural gas pipeline project to create new firm transportation capacity of up to 1,440,000 Dth/d connecting new gas production from the emerging STACK and SCOOP plays in the Anadarko Ba-sin in Oklahoma to growing Gulf Coast and Southeast markets via deliveries to existing pipelines (“Midship Project”), Con-struction contracts have been awarded to: M. G. Dyess, ph (601) 943-6663 and Strike Construction, ph (888) 353-1444. Work includes approx. 90 miles of 36-inch and 110 miles of 36-inch in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma and terminating at in-terconnects with existing interstate natural gas pipeline near Bennington, Oklahoma. The project also includes the Velma Lateral – approximately 13 miles of 16-inch pipeline that will begin at the Velma Processing Plant in Stephens County and ending in Garvin County; and the Chisholm Lateral – approxi-mately 20 miles of 30-inch-pipeline that will begin at the Ch-isholm Processing Plant in Kingfisher County and end on the mainline of the Midship project near Okarche. Work is slated to begin in April 2019.

Hanging H Pipeline, ph (360) 726-2334 has been awarded a contract by Tallgrass Energy and is expected to begin con-struction in April 2019 on the Cheyenne Connector, approxi-

mately 70 miles of 36-ich pipeline from the Denver-Julesburg Basin to the Cheyenne Hub just south of the Colorado/Wyo-ming border.

Troy Construction, ph (281) 437-8214 , Pumpco, Inc., ph (979) 542-9054, and MPG Pipeline Contractors, LLC, ph (713) 955-9901 may be the successful contractors for Kinder Morgan and EagleClaw Midstream Ventures Permian High-way Pipeline project. The approximately 430 miles of 42-inch pipeline will extend from the Waha in West Texas to Katy, Tex-as, areas, with connections to the U.S. Gulf Coast and Mexico markets. The PHP Project is expected to be in service in late 2020. Construction is slated to begin in October 2019.

Bids are being evaluated for the Keystone XL project in Mon-tana and South Dakota. Plans are for six spreads – Spread 1 – 90 miles of 36-inch pipeline; Spread 2 – 80 miles of 36-inch pipeline; Spread 3 – 89 miles of 36-inch pipeline; and Spread 4 – 89 miles of 36-inch pipeline. These spreads are in Phillips, McCone, Dawson and Fallon Counties, Montana.; Spread 5 – 83 miles of 36-inch pipeline and Spread 6 – 118 miles of 36-inch pipeline in Harding and Haakon Counties, South Da-kota. Construction is slated for Spring of 2019. Some clearing activities have been approved to get underway on the northern section.

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Pe Ben USA, Inc., ph (281) 452-4204 has been awarded a contract by TransCanada-Keystone XL for the offloading and stockpiling of approximately 385 miles of 36-inch pipe pile in numerous counties in Montana and South Dakota. There are numerous superintendents.

Pin Oak Corpus Christi, LLC has awarded an Engineer-ing, Procurement, and Construction contract to Strike, LLC to construct nine (9) directionally-drilled pipelines under the Corpus Christi ship channel. One (1) of the nine (9) pipelines will become part of Pin Oak's recently signed pipeline inter-connection agreement with Gray Oak Pipeline, LLC, a joint venture pipeline system owned 75 percent by Phillips 66 Part-ners and 25 percent by Andeavor. The Gray Oak Pipeline will provide crude oil transportation from West Texas to destina-tions in the Corpus Christi and Sweeny/Freeport markets. The directionally-drilled pipelines are expected to be in service in Q1 2019. Michels Corporation, ph (920) 583- 3132 has been awarded a contract by EQT Midstream for the Hammerhead Pipeline. The pipeline will connect gathering systems in southwestern PA. It will run 64 miles and will be a 30-inch pipeline to Mobley, WV where it will connect with Mountain Valley Pipeline and EQT’s Ohio Valley Connector. Construction is slated for Spring 2019.

Michels Corporation, ph (920) 583- 3132 and Precision Pipeline, ph (715)874-4510 have been awarded contracts for the Enbridge Line 3 Replacement Program project – approxi-mately 364 miles of 34-inch take up and 36-inch relay in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Start date undetermined.

Venables Construction, ph (806) 381-2121 is expected to get underway with construction around March 1, 2019 on a job for Aspen Midstream - approximately 60 miles of 36-inch pipeline (Ace Pipeline) near Brenham, TX. Aspen Midstream will also build approx. 90 miles of 12-, 16- and 20-inch pipeline near Austin, Texas (Aspen Austin Chalk System). The Aspen Austin Chalk System is strategically located to ensure produc-er access to premium residue and NGL markets and spans the Giddings Field, including Washington, Fayette and Burle-son counties, along with portions of Austin, Brazos, Colorado and Waller counties.

Black Hills Corp. announced that its Wyoming natural gas utility, Black Hills Gas Distribution, LLC, doing business as Black Hills Energy, received approval from the Wyoming Public Service Commission for a Certificate of Public Con-venience and Necessity to construct a new $54 million, 35-mile, 12-inch natural gas pipeline to enhance supply reliability and delivery capacity for approximately 57,000 customers in

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LATEST JOB REPORTS central Wyoming. Construction is slated for May or June 2019.

Cimarron Express Pipeline LLC received recent approval to construct 65-miles of 16-inch crude oil pipeline extending from northeastern Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, to Bluek-night’s crude oil terminal in Cushing. Bids are due in April 2019. Construction slated to begin in May 2019.

Columbia Pipeline Group is expected to begin the 1st quar-ter of 2019 with the Buckeye Xpress Project, the take up & re-lay of approx. 64 miles of 36-inch pipeline in the Appala-chian region in southeast OH.

Minnesota Ltd., ph (763) 262-7000 has been awarded a contract by Shell to construct approximately 97 miles of 12-inch pipeline – the Falcon Ethane line - in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Work to begin in summer 2019.

FERC has given the green light of approval to construct the Atlantic Coast project. The 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline will originate in Harrison County, WV, travel to Greensville County, VA, with a lateral extending to Chesapeake, VA, and then continue south into eastern North Carolina, ending in Robeson County. Two additional, shorter laterals will con-nect to two Dominion Energy electric generating facilities in

Brunswick and Greensville Counties. Contractors are: Price Gregory International, ph (713) 780-7500, U. S. Pipeline, Inc., ph (281) 531-6100 Rockford Corporation, ph (214) 740-5600 and Michels Corporation, ph (920) 583-3132. A portion of the project has been constructed. The rest of the project will be constructed in March 2020.

Targa Resources Corp.; NextEra Energy Pipeline Hold-ings, LLC ; WhiteWater Midstream, LLC, Ridgemont Energy Partners ; and MPLX LP, are proposing the Whis-tler Pipeline Project. The Whistler Project is designed to transport approximately 2.0 billion cubic feet per day of natu-ral gas through approximately 450 miles of 42-inch pipeline from Waha, Texas to NextEra’s Agua Dulce market hub, with an additional approximately 170 miles of 30-inch pipe con-tinuing from Agua Dulce and terminating in Wharton County, TX. It is expected the project will be constructed in 6 spreads – Spread 1 - 94 miles, Spread 2 - 68 miles, Spread 3 – 54 miles, Spread 4 - 50 miles, Spread 5 – 85 miles , Spread 6 - 101 miles; all to be 42-inch. Bids in September 2019. Work to begin in March 2020.

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Weiler Abrasives, a leading provider of abrasives, power brushes and maintenance products for surface conditioning, has announced additions to its national fundraising campaign, “Leading a Warriors Charge”, launched in June 2018 in partnership with Workshops for Warriors®.

The company has introduced the Tiger® Cutting Wheel counter display at select distributors. The dis-play features 20 5-pack bundles of 4-1/2” X .045” Tiger cutting wheels. Weiler Abrasives will donate 5 percent of the purchase value of every display to the Workshop for Warriors nonprofit school to support the training and certification of veterans, wounded war-riors and transitioning service members for careers in advanced manufacturing.

As with other components of the campaign, which in-cluded an initial $25,000 donation, fundraising from the displays will support training programs and the school’s long-term growth — with the goal of “Re-building American Manufacturing, One Veteran at a Time™.”

In addition, Weiler Abrasives and Workshop for War-riors partnered to create a video to raise awareness about the training provided by the school and to share how the campaign impacts both veterans and Weiler employees.

“We’re excited to share more about how our partnership with Workshops for Warriors is benefiting our industry and the many veterans returning to the civilian workforce each year in this country,” says Nate Schmid, director of marketing — Americas, Weiler Abra-sives Group. “We couldn’t be prouder to support such a great organization and hope that other U.S. manufacturers will follow.”

As it continues its year-long fundraising campaign, Weiler Abrasives remains committed to providing in-kind support of abrasive and safety products to as-sist in student training each semester.

To learn more about the Leading a Warriors Charge campaign, visit Weilercorp.com/WFW.

About Workshops for Warriors The mission of Workshops for Warriors is to pro-vide quality hands-on training, STEM educational programs and opportunities to earn third-party na-tionally recognized credentials to enable veterans, transitioning service members — and other students to be successfully trained and placed in their cho-sen advanced manufacturing career field. To learn about enrollment or donating to help support the pro-gram and its mission, visit WFW.org/donate. Addi-tional information can be found on our Facebook and Twitter pages.

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A New Kind Of Oklahoma Land Rush A New Kind Of Oklahoma Land Rush

The Greater Anadarko Basin, a prolific source of conventional U.S. oil and gas production since the 1950s, holds an estimated 16 billion barrels of oil and more than 200 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of gas in un-risked technically recoverable resources in un-conventional reservoirs, according to new energy research from IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions.

“The Anadarko Basin has long been a major contrib-utor to U.S. production, but it is just getting started in terms of delivering on its unconventional produc-tion potential,” said John Roberts, executive director, global subsurface operations and co-author of the IHS Markit Anadarko Basin research with Prithiraj Chungkham, director of unconventional resources. “We are now witnessing a new kind of Oklahoma land rush. But unlike what happened in 1889 when lands were opened to settlement, this time the com-petition is for access to the energy resources that lie below the surface,” Roberts said.

The IHS Markit analysis shows that the basin is pushing toward new all-time production highs long after conventional oil and gas production peaked in the 1970s and 1980s, respectively. Horizontal drilling in the Anadarko Basin has increased sharply since 2008, and annual basin production volumes have al-ready set new peak records.

The IHS Markit Complete Play Analysis of the Great-er Anadarko Basin, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, USA, is the first phase of a comprehensive, 18-month-long project to model and interpret the large basin’s key geologic characteristics, including 3D geologic models of 41 plays to better estimate its remaining hydrocarbon potential.

The IHS Markit analysis provides significant advanc-es in the accuracy and granularity of detailed produc-ing-formation information that is historically difficult to acquire.

“By getting to a greater level of granularity and accu-racy regarding producing formations, we change the entire view of the basin,” Roberts said. “For geolo-gists, it’s like having a more powerful microscope.”

Among the most surprising results was the vast po-tential of the Simpson shale formation, which IHS Markit now believes could be one of the biggest yet-to-be developed shale plays in the United States.

“The Simpson has long been among the largest his-torical producers of vertical production in the Anadar-ko Basin,” Roberts said. “But our new analysis shows that there is also significant Simpson potential as a major driver for horizontal shale production.”

The IHS Markit analysis includes modeled and inter-preted formations and benches in the STACK and SCOOP plays and has delivered them in a worksta-tion-ready 3D format. The significant improvement in assigned formations not only adds detail and ac-curacy to the interpretive process, but dramatically changes the views of the basin and understanding of where future hydrocarbon potential exists.

“As it stands now, only about 20 percent of the Anadarko Basin’s STACK ‘sweet-spot’ locations have been drilled or developed,” Roberts said. “The play is still in its early stages of unconventional develop-ment. We can easily envision an additional 4,000 to 5,000 horizontal wells drilled.”

Overall, the new results underscore the Anadarko Basin’s renewed attractiveness.

“The Anadarko is attractive because it has 41 stacked plays, which overlap in many parts of the basin,” Chungkham said. “For operators, that means multi-ple targets that can be accessed from one well pad.”

The analysis utilizes the IHS Markit historical well and production database that includes more than 320,000 wells, and a new proprietary tool PROD-Fit™, that, for the first time, enables them to leverage interpreted formation ‘tops’ data to accurately identify formations of completion intervals on 275,000 wells. The data was then modeled and interpreted using IHS Kingdom™ geology and geophysics software.

Anadarko Basin’s Unconventional Reserves Estimated to be 16 Billion Barrels of Oil, 200 TCF Gas, IHS Markit Says

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PROPOSED PROJECTS & UPDATES The FERC has issued a favorable Environmental Assess-ment to Dominion Energy Transmission for the proposed Sweden Valley Project. The project will include construction of: approximately 1.7 miles 20 inch pipeline lateral to the new Port Washington Metering and Regulation (M&R) delivery point in Tuscarawas County, OH; approximately 3.2 miles of 24-inch pipeline looping in Greene County, PA; the re-wheel of compressors on three existing centrifugal compression sets at Dominion’s existing Newark Compressor Station in Licking County, OH; the installation of regulation equipment at Do-minion existing South Bend Compressor Station in Armstrong County, PA and Leidy M&R Station in Clinton County, PA; and the construction of related appurtenant facilities. Dominion is proposing incremental rates for transportation service on the facilities proposed for construction herein. The cost of the proj-ect will be $49,876,709 million. If approved, the project will be-gin construction in early 2019 and will complete in late 2019.

Driftwood LNG LLC and Driftwood Pipeline LLC, have re-ceived a positive Final Environmental Impact Statement from the FERC for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities and certain interstate, natural gas transmission pipeline fa-cilities in Evangeline, Acadia, Jefferson Davis, and Calcasieu Parishes, Louisiana. The project would provide gas and pro-

cessing to produce up to 26 million tonnes per annum of LNG for export. The project facilities include five LNG plants; three LNG storage tanks; three marine berths capable of accom-modating LNG carriers of up to 216, each; 74 miles of 48-inch pipeline, 10.6 miles of 42-inch pipeline; 11.3 miles of 36-inch pipeline; and 1 mile of 30-inch lateral pipeline collated with the main pipeline; three compressor stations providing a total of 275,000 horsepower of compression; six pig launchers and receiver facilities, 15 meter stations, and 17 mainline valves. If approved, construction is expected to begin in the 1st quarter of 2019.

Duke Energy Ohio has plans to construct the Central Cor-ridor Pipeline in Hamilton County to ensure the safe and reliable delivery of natural gas to its customers in southwest Ohio for decades to come. Duke Energy Ohio proposes to construct an approximately 13-mile long, 20-inch natural gas pipeline in order to increase the reliability of natural gas de-livery in central Cincinnati. The proposed pipeline would run from an existing gas main near the intersection of Butler, War-ren, and Hamilton counties to an existing main in either the Norwood area or the Fairfax area. The project has a proposed date of Fall 2019.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has prepared a favorable Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Calcasieu Pass LNG Project. The proposed project would include a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export ter-minal and 23.4 miles of 42-inch pipeline in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The terminal would include the following facilities: liquefaction facilities; two full-containment LNG above ground storage tanks, each with a usable capacity of approximately 200,000 cubic meters; a 720 megawatt electric generating

plant; a marine terminal consisting of a turning basin and LNG carrier berths; LNG piping; transfer lines; loading facilities; and other infrastructure. The pipeline would include the fol-lowing facilities: one meter station; three mainline valves; one pipeline inspection/cleaning device launcher at the meter sta-tion; and one pipeline inspection/cleaning device receiver on the terminal site. The FERC concludes that construction and operation of the project would result in some adverse environ-mental impacts, but these impacts would be reduced to less

than significant levels.

Columbia Gas Transmission has filed re-ceived a Notice of Intent to Prepare from the FERC seeking to construct the Buckeye Xpress Project. The proposed project would include replacement of approximately 64 miles of existing, aging 20-inch and 24-inch natural gas pipeline from Vinton, Ohio, to Burlington, Ohio, on a portion of Columbia’s R-System. Columbia proposes to replace the existing pipeline potentially with 36-inch pipeline nec-essary to provide 275,000 Dth/d of additional firm capacity for the project. Upon comple-tion, the replaced line will be known as R-801. Columbia is proposing to place the project into service in November 2020. A phased in-ser-vice approach may be considered once cus-tomer negotiations are complete.

Crimson Midstream and MPLX announced the commencement of an extended bind-ing open season to assess interest and so-licit commitments from prospective shippers for transportation service on the Swordfish Pipeline. The Swordfish Pipeline is being jointly developed by Crimson and MPLX to provide connectivity from existing terminal facilities in St. James, Louisiana, and Race-land, Louisiana, to the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port terminal facility in Clovelly, Louisiana. The proposed pipeline would be a multi-diameter batched system with the ability to transport up to 600,000 barrels of crude oil per day and pro-vide shippers with access to storage services, vessel loading, as well as connectivity to other carriers at the Clovelly Hub. The in-service date for the Swordfish Pipeline is anticipated to be in the first half of 2020. The binding open season began at 8 a.m. CDT on October 17, 2018, and concluded at noon CST on January 31, 2019. The binding open season provided interested shippers with an opportunity to se-cure transportation service on the proposed pipeline.

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Empire Pipeline, Inc., a subsidiary of National Fuel Gas Company, has issued a favorable Environmental Assessment for the Empire North Project was expected November 20, 2018 with a final project decision slated for February 8, 2019. The company is seeking authorization to construct two new compression stations, one in the Town of Farmington, N.Y., and the other in Jackson Township, PA, along with minor fa-cility modifications to its existing Jackson Meter & Regulator Station and its existing New Victor Regulator Station, located in Jackson Township, PA, and Victor, N.Y. The Empire North Project consists of: installation of new electric motor-driven natural gas compressor facility off Hook Road on two tax par-cels that total approximately 92.4 acres in the Town of Farm-ington, Ontario County, N.Y.; installation of new turbine-driv-en natural gas compression facility on two parcels that total approximately 42.2 acres off Buckwheat Hollow Road and Stateline Road in Jackson Township, Tioga County, PA; mi-nor modifications to existing New Victor Regulator Station, lo-cated off Valentown Road in Victor, N.Y.; minor modifications to the existing Jackson Meter and Regulator Station, located in Jackson Township, Tioga County, PA; and uprate of Maxi-mum Allowable Operating Pressure (MAOP) of the existing Empire Connector Pipeline (ECP) that runs from Victor, N.Y. to Corning, N.Y. from 1290 psig to 1440 psig, in accordance

with federal pipeline safety regulations. The proposed uprate is not expected to require any construction-related activities. The project has a targeted in-service date of November 2019.

Energy Transfer Partners, L.P., Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P., MPLX LP and Delek US Holdings, Inc. an-nounced they have received sufficient commitments to pro-ceed with plans to construct a new 30-inch common carrier pipeline to transport crude oil from the Permian Basin to the Texas Gulf Coast region, with the ability to increase the pipe diameter to expand the capacity based upon additional com-mitments received during the upcoming open season. The 600-mile pipeline system is expected to be operational in mid-2020 with multiple Texas origins, including Wink, Crane and Midland. The pipeline system will have the strategic capability to transport crude oil to both Energy Transfer’s Nederland, Texas terminal and Magellan’s East Houston, Texas terminal for ultimate delivery through their respective distribution sys-tems. The project is subject to receipt of customary regulatory and Board approvals of the respective entities.

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. announced a series of projects designed to provide an additional 55,000 barrels per day of fractionation capacity at existing facilities in Texas and

Louisiana. As part of the initiative, Enterprise plans to optimize its Shoup fractionator in Nueces County, Texas by expanding and repurposing a portion of the partnership’s South Texas pipeline system. Construction of approximately 21 miles of new pipeline along with the conversion of approximately 65 miles of existing natural gas pipeline to natural gas liquids service would allow Enterprise to supply Shoup with 25,000 BPD of additional NGL volumes. The expanded pipeline ca-pacity is expected to be available in the third quarter of 2019. In Louisiana, Enterprise plans to restart its 30,000 BPD Te-bone fractionator in Ascension Parish. The plant is connected by pipeline to each of the partnership’s Louisiana natural gas processing plants, as well as its NGL fractionation and stor-age hub in Mont Belvieu, Texas. The resumption of service at Tebone, which is expected in the first quarter of 2019, will complement Enterprise’s Norco and Promix fractionators, providing another option for NGLs delivered to Mont Belvieu.

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. announced plans for an incremental 150,000 barrels per day expansion to its natural gas liquids fractionation facilities at its Mont Belvieu complex. The expansion would increase Enterprise’s NGL fractionation capacity to 1 million BPD in the Mont Belvieu area, and approximately 1.5 million BPD companywide, once

service begins. This new NGL fractionator is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2020. Enterprise previ-ously announced plans for a 150,000 NGL fractionator that is under construction and is scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of 2020. The projects are supported by long-term, fee-based contracts. Teague added that the new fractionation units will supply NGL products for the expanding petrochemi-cal industry on the U.S. Gulf Coast as well as growing global demand for U.S. NGLs.

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. announced is under con-struction with a new natural gas liquids fractionator adjacent to its Mont Belvieu, Texas complex. The new unit will have a nameplate capacity of 150,000 barrels per day, giving En-terprise 905,000 BPD of fractionation capability in the Mont Belvieu area, and approximately 1.4 million BPD company-wide. The fractionator is scheduled to begin service in the first quarter of 2020.

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Kinder Morgan, Inc. announced a successful open season on its Roanoke Expansion projects on the Plantation Pipe Line System. Following the open season, Plantation Pipe Line se-cured long-term committed volumes of 20,000 barrels per day (bpd). The Plantation Pipe Line Company’s investment in the project is approximately $49 million. In addition, Kinder Mor-gan Southeast Terminal’s (KMST) investment, fully backed by 10,000 bpd of long-term committed volumes, is approximately $9 million. With the successful open season, Plantation Pipe Line will submit the Petition for Declaratory Order (PDO) to the FERC for approval of commercial terms for the project. Pending all regulatory approvals, the project is expected to be in full service by April 1, 2020. The Plantation Pipe Line Roanoke Expansion will provide approximately 21,000 bpd of incremental refined petroleum products capacity on Plantation from the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Collins, Mississippi, ori-gin points to the Roanoke, Virginia, area. The expansion will primarily consist of additional pump capacity and operational storage on the Plantation system. The KMST expansion will provide approximately 10,000 bpd of incremental refined prod-uct throughput capacity at the terminals.

Medallion Pipeline Company, LLC announced the success-ful closing of its binding open season for a major expansion of

its existing crude oil pipeline system in the Midland Basin. As previously announced, Medallion will expand six segments of its pipeline system to transport increased quantities of crude oil, produced form acreage proximate to Medallion’s system, to downstream pipelines and markets. Based on the capacity bids received during the open season, Medallion has received long-term binding commitments sufficient to move forward with the construction of the Expansion. The Expansion is ex-pected to commence commercial operations in phases, with full commercial operations occurring during the fourth quarter of 2019.

Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. recently held an open season for the expansion of the western leg of its refined products pipeline system in Texas and has launched an open season to assess customer interest. The proposed expan-sion would increase Magellan’s capability to transport refined petroleum products, such as gasoline and diesel fuel, from Gulf Coast refineries to demand centers in Abilene, Midland/Odessa and El Paso, Texas, with further optionality to access markets in the states of New Mexico and Arizona, as well as international markets in Mexico via connections to other pipe-lines owned by Magellan and third parties. The pipeline’s cur-rent capacity of 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) could increase

Skellytown, Texas in Carson County to the NGL fractionation and storage complex in Mont Belvieu, Texas. The partners expect to expand Texas Express by approximately 90,000 barrels per day. Enterprise will be responsible for constructing the expansion, which will consist of adding pumping capac-ity along the 583-mile route. Service on the expanded Texas Express pipeline is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2019. The expansion of Texas Express is designed to facili-tate growing production of NGLs from domestic shale basins, including the Denver-Julesburg Basin in Colorado. Comple-menting the Texas Express expansion is a proposed increase in capacity on the 435-mile Front Range pipeline that origi-nates in Weld County Colorado and connects to the Texas Express pipeline. Combined, these two assets offer an inte-grated solution that provides much-needed takeaway capac-ity for NGL production in the DJ Basin and access to the Gulf Coast market.

EPIC Midstream Holdings, LP reaffirmed that the EPIC Crude Oil Pipeline remains on schedule to begin interim ser-vice from Crane, Texas to Corpus Christi, Texas, during the third quarter of 2019. The project is expected to be in per-manent service beginning January 2020. EPIC has secured 100% of the mainline right-of-way for the crude pipeline and anticipates the initial 30-inch pipe delivery by the end of Janu-ary 2019. Construction of the 30-inch pipeline is expected to commence shortly thereafter. All pipe has been ordered from domestic mills. EPIC anticipates significant construction syn-ergies between the Crude and Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline given the same construction crews will be utilized over the same right-of-way. che Company continues to work diligently with all governmental stakeholders and its shippers to ensure that all features of the project comply with current policies. The company is committed to addressing and resolving any issues that may arise during the ongoing administrative re-view process. EPIC does not foresee any obstacles to obtain-ing the necessary approvals related to the 700-mile 30” crude pipeline originating in Orla, Texas, with a terminus in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Construction of the Westlake Expansion Project involving construction and operation of facilities by Gulf South Pipeline Company, LP in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana are underway. Gulf South is constructing the following facilities as part of the Westlake Expansion Project in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana: one new 10,000 horsepower compressor station (Westlake Compressor Station) and appurtenant facilities; approximate-ly 1,600 feet of 16-inch natural gas pipeline lateral; and two new metering and regulating stations (Entergy Lake Charles and Varibus M&R Stations). The project will provide about 200 million cubic feet of natural gas per day to the proposed 980 megawatt natural gas-fired combined cycle electric generat-ing plant near Westlake, Louisiana. Gulf South plans to place the facilities in-service by August 2019.

Gulf Coast Express Pipeline LLC, a joint venture owned by affiliates of Kinder Morgan, Inc., DCP Midstream, LP and Tar-ga Resources Corp. is underway with construction of the Gulf Coast Express Pipeline Project (GCX Project). The GCX Project Mainline portion consists of approximately 82 miles of 36-inch pipeline and 365 miles of 42-inch pipeline originat-ing at the Waha Hub near Coyanosa, Texas in the Permian Basin and terminating near Agua Dulce, Texas. Additionally, the Midland Lateral portion consists of approximately 50 miles of 36-inch pipeline and associated compression, connecting with the GCX Project Mainline. The project is expected to be in service in October 2019, pending the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals. Of the 220,000 Dth/d of available ca-pacity, 60,000 Dth/d have been added to the project due to strong market demand. With the added capacity, the GCX Project will have a total design capacity of 1.98 billion cubic feet per day at an estimated cost of $1.75 billion.

Gulf South Pipeline Company, LP – FERC has issued a Notice of Schedule for Environmental Review for the Willis Lateral project. The proposed project would provide about 200 million cubic feet of natural gas per day to Entergy Texas, Inc.’s Montgomery County Power Station Project near Willis, Texas. The project would consist of the following facilities en-tirely within the state of Texas: construction of approximately 19 miles of 24-inch pipeline in Montgomery and San Jacinto Counties; addition of a new 15,876 horsepower turbine engine to the existing Goodrich Compressor Station and construction of a new Meter and Regulator station at the compressor sta-tion in Polk County; construction of the Index 129 tie-in and pig launcher facility in San Jacinto County; construction of the new Willis M&R station at the terminus of the project (includ-ing a pig receiver, filter separators with a liquid storage tank, and ancillary equipment) in Montgomery County; and con-struction of a mainline valve facility in Montgomery County. Issuance of the Environmental Assessment from the FERC is expected March 4, 2019 with a final authorization slated for June 2, 2019. If approved, the Willis Lateral Project has a tentative in-service slated for May 2020.

Jupiter Energy Group, a privately held midstream company that provides crude oil producers and gas plants with logistics and offtake solutions, is currently holding a 90-day open sea-son for binding shipper commitments on the Jupiter Pipeline, which is expected to be operational in fourth quarter of 2020. The Jupiter Pipeline will be a 650-mile, 36-inch-diameter crude oil pipeline with origination points near Crane, Texas and Gardendale / Three Rivers, Texas, and an offtake point in Brownsville, Texas. As designed, it will be the only pipeline out of the Permian Basin that will access all three deep water ports in Texas (Houston, Corpus Christi and Brownsville) and will have direct access to a fully capable VLCC loading facility off coast at Brownsville.

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Medallion Pipeline announced the successful closing of its binding open season for a major expansion to its existing crude oil pipeline system in the Midland Basin. As previously announced, Medallion will expand six segments of its pipe-line system to transport increased quantities of crude oil, pro-duced from acreage near Medallion’s system, to downstream pipelines and markets. Medallion plans to construct a 16-inch operational loop of its existing Midkiff Lateral and plans to ex-pand the capacity of the Crane Extension, Reagan Gather-ing Extension, Santa Rita Lateral, Martin Lateral and Midland Lateral. Initially placed in service in October 2014, Medallion’s crude oil pipeline has undertaken a series of expansions to meet the increasing needs of producers and marketers in the Midland Basin. The existing system is a network of roughly

700 miles of 6-inch and larger crude oil pipeline facilities that aggregate and transport crude oil production to the Colorado City (Texas) Hub, the Crane Hub and the Midland Hub, pro-viding access to multiple long-haul, large-volume pipelines for transportation to downstream markets. Based on the capacity bids received during the open season, Medallion has received long-term binding commitments sufficient to move forward with construction. The expansion is expected to commence commercial operations in phases, with full commercial opera-tions occurring during the fourth quarter of 2019.

Mountain Valley Pipeline formally applied for approval to construct a 73-mile natural gas pipeline extending from Cha-tham across state lines into North Carolina. The pipeline ex-tension, the Southgate Project would connect with Mountain Valley’s contentious mainline that’s set to end in Pittsylvania County. The staff of the FERC met with the Monacan Indian Nation on January 17, 2019 to discuss the proposed South-gate Project, in Virginia and North Carolina. Though the main-line isn’t projected to finish until the final months of 2019 as-suming no further delays occur. For the project to receive the necessary permits, MVP must prove to the FERC there is a need for the pipeline and all efforts have been made to limit the impact to the public. The commission is the federal body

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Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. and Navigator En-ergy Services announced the launch of an open season to jointly assess customer interest to transport various grades of light crude oil and condensate from Cushing, Oklahoma to Houston, Texas. All potential customers must have submit-ted binding commitments by January 31, 2019. The proposed Voyager Pipeline would include construction of nearly 500 miles of 20-inch diameter pipeline from Magellan’s terminal in Cushing to Magellan’s terminal in East Houston. At the ori-gin, the Voyager pipeline would provide shippers optionality to originate deliveries at Cushing from the Magellan-operated Saddlehorn pipeline serving the Rockies and Bakken produc-tion regions, Navigator’s Glass Mountain pipeline serving the Mid-Continent basins as well as other connections within the strategic Cushing crude oil hub. At the destination, Magellan’s comprehensive Houston crude oil distribution system could further deliver the product to all refineries in the Houston and Texas City area or to crude oil export facilities, such as Magel-lan’s Seabrook Logistics joint venture terminal. The potential

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Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. recently held an exten-sion of the open season to solicit commitments from ship-pers for a new pipeline to transport various grades of crude oil and condensate from the Permian and Eagle Ford Basins to multiple destinations in the Corpus Christi and Houston, Texas markets, including Magellan’s existing crude oil termi-nals in these markets. The proposed project would include construction of an approximately 375-mile, 24-inch pipeline from Crane to a location near Three Rivers, Texas, providing shippers the option to ultimately deliver crude oil and conden-sate from the Three Rivers area to the Houston area via a new 200-mile pipeline or to the Corpus Christi area via a new

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and additional infrastructure to connect West Texas LPG with ONEOK's previously announced Arbuckle II Pipeline project. Based on the initial contracted volume, the expansion project is expected to generate an adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (adjusted EBITDA) mul-tiple of four to six times. ONEOK continues discussions with producers and processors in the region for additional poten-tial volume commitments. ONEOK's previously announced 110,000 bpd pipeline lateral extension of the West Texas LPG system into the Delaware Basin and expansion of the existing mainline system is currently under construction and expected to be in service this month. The West Texas LPG Pipeline is an NGL pipeline system that provides takeaway capacity to Permian Basin producers and consists of approximately 2,600 miles of NGL pipeline in Texas and New Mexico. The system provides transportation services to the Mont Belvieu market center from nearly 40 third-party natural gas process-ing plants located in the Permian Basin. The Permian Basin in southeastern New Mexico and western Texas is the largest crude oil and natural gas producing basin in the U.S.

ONEOK, Inc. plans to invest approximately $2.3 billion be-tween now and 2020 to construct: a new 400,000-barrel per day (bpd) natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline – the Arbuckle

II Pipeline – that will create additional NGL transportation ca-pacity between ONEOK's extensive Mid-Continent infrastruc-ture in Oklahoma and the company's existing NGL facilities in Mont Belvieu, Texas; a new 125,000 bpd NGL fractionator – MB-4 – in Mont Belvieu, Texas, and related infrastructure; and a new 200-million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) natural gas processing facility – the Demicks Lake plant and related infrastructure – in the Williston Basin. Arbuckle II Pipeline and MB-4: The approximately 530-mile, 24- and 30-inch di-ameter Arbuckle II Pipeline is expected to cost approximately $1.36 billion and will have an initial capacity to transport up to 400,000 bpd of unfractionated NGLs originating across ONEOK's supply basins and extensive NGL gathering system to the company's storage and fractionation facilities at Mont Belvieu. The Arbuckle II Pipeline is expected to be completed in the first quarter 2020. The pipeline will have the capability to be expanded up to 1 million bpd with additional pump facili-ties, which could more than double ONEOK's current capacity between the Mid-Continent and Gulf Coast. The new MB-4 fractionator and related infrastructure, which includes addi-tional NGL storage capacity in Mont Belvieu, are expected to cost approximately $575 million and be completed in the first quarter 2020. ONEOK's total NGL fractionation capacity will increase to 965,000 bpd following the completion of MB-

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Northern Natural Gas Co. – The FERC has issued a favor-able Environmental Assessment for the Northern Lights Ex-pansion 2019/Rochester Expansion project. The proposal has two major components, known as the Northern Lights 2019 Expansion Project and the Rochester Project, which together would provide approximately 138,504 dekatherms per day of upstream firm natural gas transportation service to serve increased markets for industrial, commercial, and residential uses. The projects consist of new pipeline and compression facilities, all in the state of Minnesota. The Roch-ester Project component includes 12.6 miles of new 16-inch pipeline in Olmsted County (Rochester Greenfield Lateral); increase of maximum allowable operating pressure on an 8-mile-long segment of 16-inch-diameter pipeline in Freeborn and Mower Counties; a new town border station in Olmsted County, including a pig receiver; relocation of a regulator from Freeborn to Mower County; and appurtenant facilities, includ-ing two valves and a pig launcher at milepost (MP) 0.0 of the Rochester Greenfield Lateral. The Northern Lights Expan-sion Project component includes 10.0 miles of new 24-inch pipeline in Hennepin and Wright Counties; 4.3 miles of new 8-inch pipeline loop extension in Morrison County; 1.6 miles

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ONEOK, Inc. announced plans to invest approximately $295 million to expand its West Texas LPG Limited Partnership (West Texas LPG) pipeline system, which provides natu-ral gas liquids (NGL) takeaway capacity for Permian Basin producers. The expansion project, which is expected to be completed in the first quarter 2020, is supported by long-term dedicated NGL production from six third-party natural gas processing plants in the Permian Basin that are expected to produce up to 60,000 barrels per day (bpd) of NGLs. The ex-pansion includes the construction of four new pump stations, two pump station upgrades and pipeline looping that will in-crease the West Texas LPG mainline capacity by 80,000 bpd

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4. The initial capacity of the Arbuckle II Pipeline is more than 50 percent contracted, and MB-4 is fully contracted. Both are anchored by long-term contracts with terms ranging between 10 to 20 years. Adjusted EBITDA multiples for these projects are based only from these commitments but additional supply agreements continue to be negotiated. Demicks Lake plant and related infrastructure: The Demicks Lake natural gas processing plant and related field infrastructure are expected to cost a total of approximately $400 million and be completed during the fourth quarter 2019. The Demicks Lake plant will be built in McKenzie County, North Dakota, which is in the core area of the Williston Basin. The plant is supported by acreage dedications with primarily fee-based contracts. The Demicks Lake plant is expected to contribute additional NGL volumes to ONEOK's NGL gathering system and natural gas volumes to ONEOK's 50 percent-owned Northern Border Pipeline. ONEOK's Williston Basin natural gas processing ca-pacity will increase to more than 1.2 billion cubic feet per day following the completion of the Demicks Lake plant.

Permico Energia is planning to build a 510 mile (821km) pipeline from the Permian basin in West Texas to a new frac-tionator it will build near Corpus Christi, TX. The pipeline, called Companero, will have an initial capacity of 300,000 bbl/day of natural gas liquids (NGLs), said Permico, a US-based midstream company. The fractionator, called El Centro, will have a capacity of 300,000 bbl/day, Permico said. Another pipeline will lead from the new fractionator and terminate at the US NGL hub in Mont Belvieu, Texas, Permico said. It will have a length of 230 miles, have a capacity of 250,000 bbl/day and have ethane and propane service. The fraction-ator will have yet another pipeline, called Markham, that will have a length of 116 miles, have a capacity of 175,000 bbl/day and have ethane, propane and y-grade service, Permico said. This pipeline will terminate at the Markham storage facil-ity. Construction will start in the early 2019, and operations should start in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Permico Energia LLC is considering an $825 million invest-ment near Corpus Christi, Texas. The first two would start con-struction in March 2019 and enter service in December 2020. The third would start construction in the first quarter of 2023 with an in-service date of June 2024. Each train would employ about 250 people during its construction, with each employee paid at least $66,500 annually, according to the documents. Each train would be able to process 150,000 barrels of NGL into higher-grade purity products each day, according to the application. Permico is also planning to build the Compañero Pipeline, a 300,000 barrel per day NGL line that would ex-tend from the Permian Basin to the fractionators near Corpus Christi, which would be called El Centro Fractionator.

Phillips 66 Partners, Harvest Midstream Company, and PBF Logistics LP have entered into an agreement to jointly develop the ACE Pipeline System. The ACE Pipeline System

will provide crude oil transportation service from the market hub in St. James, Louisiana, to downstream refining desti-nations in Belle Chasse, Meraux, and Chalmette, Louisiana. The pipeline system is expected to have an initial throughput capacity of 400,000 barrels per day, with the ability to expand further depending on shipper interest. The parties may elect to add a delivery destination in Clovelly, Louisiana, subject to market demand. Subject to customary and regulatory approv-als, the pipeline system is expected to be placed in service in the second half of 2020. The ACE Pipeline System will include a new-build segment to connect the St. James market cen-ter to the CAM Pipeline. Harvest Midstream will contribute its existing CAM Pipeline to the ACE Pipeline System. An open season commenced on January 14, 2019, for transportation service on the ACE Pipeline System.

Phillips 66 and Bridger Pipeline LLC recently held a joint open season for the proposed Liberty Pipeline, which will provide shippers the opportunity to secure crude oil transpor-tation service from the Rockies and Bakken production areas to Corpus Christi, Texas. The Liberty Pipeline is expected to have an initial throughput capacity of 350,000 barrels per day (BPD) with the ability to expand further depending on ship-per interest in the open season. The pipeline is anticipated to be placed in service in the fourth quarter of 2020. Phillips 66 also announces an open season for the proposed Red Oak Pipeline, which will provide shippers the opportunity to secure crude oil transportation service from Cushing, Oklahoma, to Corpus Christi, Houston and Beaumont, Texas. The Red Oak Pipeline is expected to have an initial throughput capacity of 400,000 BPD with the ability to expand further depending on shipper interest in the open season. The pipeline is anticipat-ed to be placed in service in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Phillips 66 Partners announced that it has received suffi-cient binding commitments on an initial open season to pro-ceed with construction of the Gray Oak Pipeline system. The Gray Oak Pipeline will provide crude oil transportation from West Texas to destinations in the Corpus Christi and Sweeny/Freeport markets. Origination stations will be constructed in Reeves, Loving, Winkler, and Crane counties in West Texas, as well as from locations in the Eagle Ford production area in South Texas. The pipeline is expected to be placed in service by the end of 2019, and is backed by long-term, third-party, take-or-pay commitments with primarily investment-grade customers. Gray Oak Pipeline, LLC, a joint venture owned 75 percent by Phillips 66 Partners and 25 percent by Andeavor, will own the pipeline system. Other third parties, including Enbridge Inc., have an option to acquire up to 32.75 percent interest in the joint venture. If all options are exercised, Phil-lips 66 Partners’ ownership would be 42.25 percent and An-deavor’s ownership would remain 25 percent. Gray Oak Pipe-line, LLC received enough volume commitments in the form of precedent agreements to hold a second binding open sea-son. This open season provides an opportunity for additional

PROPOSED PROJECTS & UPDATES PROPOSED PROJECTS & UPDATES shippers to enter into transportation services agreements that provide long-term crude oil transportation on the Gray Oak Pipeline. The ultimate scope and capacity of the pipeline will depend on the outcome of the second open season. Subject to the results of the open season, the Gray Oak Pipeline could transport up to 700,000 barrels per day or more of crude oil from the Permian Basin to downstream markets. Its capacity could ultimately be expanded to approximately 1 million bar-rels per day of long-haul takeaway. In Corpus Christi, the Gray Oak Pipeline will connect to a new joint venture marine termi-nal under development by Buckeye Partners, L.P. Buckeye will have a 50 percent interest in the terminal joint venture and will be the operator, while Phillips 66 Partners and Andeavor each will have a 25 percent ownership interest. The terminal will have an initial storage capacity of 3.4 million barrels and is expected to begin operations by the end of 2019.

Port Arthur Pipeline, LLC, a subsidiary of Sempra LNG & Midstream, has received a Draft Environmental Impact State-ment from the FERC for its proposed natural gas pipeline in connection with the proposed development of the Port Arthur Liquefaction Project by Port Arthur LNG, LLC, and PALNG Common Facilities in Jefferson County, Texas. The Texas Connector Project will be comprised of two segments to-taling 34.2 miles of new 42-inch diameter pipeline and ap-proximately 4.65 miles of variable diameter lateral pipelines. The 26.6 mile northern pipeline segment will transport gas from interconnections with Houston Pipeline Company, Texas Eastern Transmission, and Florida Gas Transmission Company. This northern segment will also interconnect with underground natural gas storage facilities at the Golden Tri-angle Storage and Centana Intrastate Pipeline, LLC facilities in Jefferson County, Texas. The 7.6 mile southern pipeline segment extending south from the Liquefaction Project will interconnect with the existing pipeline systems of Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America and Kinder Morgan Louisiana Pipeline Company in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The Texas Connector Project will be capable of delivering approximately 2,000,000 million British thermal units (“MMBtu”) per day of natural gas to the Liquefaction Project. The northern pipeline segment will be located in Orange and Jefferson Counties, Texas, and the southern segment in Jefferson County, Texas and Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The pipeline will also pass through the jurisdictional boundaries of the cities of Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas. Approximately one mile of the south segment will be installed under Sabine Pass shipping chan-nel via horizontal directional drilling. Port Arthur Pipeline pro-poses to construct two compressor stations, one for the south pipeline segment and one for the north pipeline segment. The major compressor station equipment will be comprised of compressors with either natural gas or electric drivers, suction scrubbers upstream of the compressors, electric motor-driven natural gas coolers downstream of the compressors, unit and station blowdowns with silencers, above and below ground piping and valves, and system utilities. The meter stations will

consist of unmanned facilities containing a meter and regula-tor building, pig launcher/receiver assemblies, meter and con-trol valve skid, separator, condensate tank, associated above and below ground piping, and valve fixtures to tie-in to the two proposed pipeline segments. Construction is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2021, with commercial operations expected to begin in third quarter of 2022. On October 16,

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2017, Port Arthur Pipeline filed another application requesting a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the Loui-siana Connector Project, authorizing Port Arthur Pipeline to construct, own, and operate additional new proposed Lique-faction Facility south of Port Arthur in Jefferson County, Texas. The Louisiana Connector Project will be capable of deliver-ing approximately 2,000,000 MMBtu per day of natural gas to the Liquefaction Project. The Louisiana Connector Project, along with the Texas Connector Project facilities proposed in this proceeding, will be the primary means of delivery of feed gas to the Liquefaction Project. The anticipated construction start date is 1st quarter of 2021 with in-service slated for 3rd quarter 2022.The Louisiana Connector Project will include 131 miles of 42-inch diameter gas pipeline, a new compressor station, interconnection facilities with interstate and intrastate natural gas facilities, and other appurtenant facilities. The pro-posed Louisiana Connector Project facilities will extend from an interconnect with Columbia Gas Transmission (MP 130.9) located northeast of Eunice, Louisiana in St. Landry Parish through Evangeline, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, and Cam-eron Parishes in Louisiana and Jefferson County, Texas and terminate at the proposed Liquefaction Facility south of Port Arthur in Jefferson County, Texas. The Louisiana Connector

Project, along with the Texas Connector Project facilities pro-posed in this proceeding, will be the primary means of deliv-ery of feed gas to the Liquefaction Project. Both projects are needed to provide service to the Liquefaction Project and will allow flexible access to multiple supply basins and systems of upstream transporters. Combined, the projects will give more gas sellers access to Port Arthur LNG and Port Arthur LNG access to more supply basins. The proposed Port Arthur Pipeline Project would consist of two segments oriented north and south of the proposed liquefaction project. The 27.6-mile northern portion of the proposed pipeline project would extend from Vidor in Orange County, TX to the proposed liq-uefaction project, with the majority of the proposed pipeline co-located with existing energy infrastructure rights-of-way. The approximately 7-mile southern portion of the proposed pipeline project would originate in Cameron Parish, Louisi-ana on the east bank of Sabine Lake and terminate at the Port Arthur Liquefaction Project. The proposed pipeline proj-ect would interconnect the Port Arthur Liquefaction Project to various intra- and interstate pipelines, providing access to a number of major U.S. natural gas supply basins. Construction is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2021, with com-mercial operations expected to begin in third quarter of 2022.

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Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline, Inc. announced the commencement of a new Non-Binding Open Season to iden-tify market growth and supply access opportunities, to quantify interest in firm transportation service, and to identify the need to construct facilities. Southern Star is specifically evaluating interest in two potential projects that would provide increased connectivity, expand capacity in Oklahoma and our market area, and expand our Southeast market access through Nat-ural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC (NGPL). The Midwest Market Access project would provide the growing SCOOP and STACK production plays more access through Southern Star's Production area and into the Market area by adding compression at the Blackwell Station and on the Canadian Blackwell (CB) line, with the potential for additional compression downstream of the PMI in the Market area, to create up to 160,000 Dth/d incremental capacity on CB and in the Market area. The Southeast Expansion to NGPL project would expand capacity of the recently installed NGPL Carter interconnect between Southern Star and NGPL, allowing the growing SCOOP and STACK production plays more access through Southern Star to TexOk markets in NGPL's Segment 15. This expansion could provide up to 40,000 Dth/d of ad-ditional capacity. All projects will be developed by Southern Star using its FERC Gas Tariff. This ownership and regulatory structure will provide benefits to expansion shippers as well as existing Southern Star shippers. Southern Star invited par-ties that were interested in firm transportation capacity avail-able through the expansion were to submit non-binding ser-vice requests end of day January 31, 2019. The non-binding bid(s) received during this Open Season will assist Southern Star in determining whether to pursue the proposed expan-sion and in defining the final parameters of such expansion. If it decides to move forward after evaluating the bids, Southern Star will, subject to FERC approval, install the necessary fa-cilities to serve all or a portion of the requested capacity.

Summit Permian Transmission, LLC has received a no-tice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Assessment from the FERC for the planned Double E Pipeline Project in New Mexico and Texas. The scope of facilities currently includes the following: approximately 34 miles of new 30-inch pipeline (Trunkline100 or T100) from Summit’s existing Lane Process-ing Plant in Eddy County, New Mexico to a planned Poker Lake Compressor Station site, also in Eddy County. In addition to the trunkline, this portion of the project would include: one 30-inch pig launcher and one receipt meter located within the Lane Processing Plant; and two mainline block valves; one new compressor station (Poker Lake Compressor Station), sited on approximately 70 acres on federal land managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, in Eddy County. The new compressor station would require two Taurus 70 turbine-driven compressor units, totaling about 22,200 horsepowers. Associated facilities would include one 42-inch pig launcher; one 30-inch pig receiver; and one receipt meter located at the Poker Lake Compressor Station site with an expected volume

of 175 million standard cubic feet per day; approximately 81.1 miles of new 42-inch pipeline (Trunkline 200 or T200) from the planned Poker Lake Compressor Station; through Lov-ing, Ward, and Reeves Counties, Texas and terminating at the Waha Pigging Station in Reeves County, Texas. In addition to the trunkline, this portion of the project would include: four mainline block valves; and one 42-inch pig receiver, located within the Waha Hub Pigging Station site; approximately 17.3 miles of new 30-inch pipeline (Lateral 100 or L100) from the existing Loving Processing Plants to the planned trunk-line in Eddy County, New Mexico. Additional facilities would include: one 30-inch pig launcher; one 30-inch pig receiver; and three receipt meters, including: one receipt meter to serve the new Sendero Midstream Partners Plant, currently under construc-tion; one receipt meter to serve the existing Matador Re-sources Company’s Plant; and one receipt meter to serve the new Lucid Energy Group Road Runner Plant, currently under construction; approximately 1.4 miles of new 42-inch trunkline (Trunk-line 300 or T300) from the planned Summit Waha Pig-ging Station site in Reeves County, Texas to the final delivery locations in the Waha Hub in Pecos, County, Texas. Aboveg-round facilities would include: one delivery meter to serve Kinder Morgan’s Permian Highway Pipeline, currently under construction; one delivery meter to serve Kinder Morgan’s ex-isting Gulf Coast Express Pipeline; and one delivery meter to serve Energy Transfer Company’s existing TransPecos Pipe-line header pipeline. Summit anticipates initial construction activities to begin in April 2020, with a planned in-service date of April 2021.

Tallgrass Energy, LP, through its affiliate Tallgrass Pony Ex-press Pipeline, LLC, announced a binding open season solic-iting shipper commitments for crude oil transportation service from the Guernsey, Wyoming, origin point to refinery delivery points along the Pony Express system and to Cushing, Okla-homa. The open season commenced at 12 p.m. Central Stan-dard Time on Nov. 16, 2018, and was expected to conclude on January 18, 2019. Based on commitments received in this binding open season, Pony Express plans to expand capacity on the pipeline up to an additional 300,000 barrels per day be-yond expected year-end capacity of approximately 400,000 barrels per day. Company officials expect the expansion to be staged over the next two years, with full-in service in Q3 2020.

Tallgrass Energy, LP and Kinder Morgan, Inc. announced an agreement to jointly develop a solution to increase existing crude oil takeaway capacity in the growing Powder River and Denver-Julesburg basins and to add incremental capacity to the Williston Basin and portions of Western Canada. Pursuant to the agreement, the proposed venture would include both existing and newly constructed assets. TGE would contribute its Pony Express Pipeline System, and KMI would contribute portions of its Wyoming Intrastate Company and Cheyenne Plains Gas Pipeline and begin the process of abandonment and conversion to crude oil service. In addition, approximately

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200 miles of new pipeline would be constructed to provide crude oil deliveries into Cushing, Oklahoma. In total, the com-bined pipeline system is expected to be capable of deliver-ing up to 800,000 barrels per day (bpd) of light crude oil and 150,000 bpd of heavy crude oil from points in Wyoming and Colorado to TGE’s and KMI’s Deeprock terminal in Cushing. From there, customers will have pipeline connectivity to the Gulf Coast and export markets through TGE’s planned Sea-horse Pipeline and other existing or proposed future pipeline projects. The combined project is expected to provide initial service as early as the second half of 2020.

Tallgrass Energy, LP has signed a binding agreement with an unaffiliated third-party that has the potential to be an an-chor shipper and equity partner on the Seahorse Pipeline. The proposed Seahorse Pipeline is expected to be 30 inches in diameter and approximately 700 miles long, with the ca-pacity to transport up to 800,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the Cushing oil hub to the Louisiana Gulf Coast. The pipeline will operate as a multi-grade common batch system that, along with Tallgrass’ Pony Express Pipeline, will ensure domestic refiners and international markets have access to “neat” barrels from five different production basins. Seahorse is expected to start commercial operations in the third quar-ter of 2021. In addition, to accommodate shipper interest and continued growth in the Powder River, Denver-Julesburg and Bakken producing regions, Tallgrass expects to complete pump optimization projects to expand capacity on its Pony Express Pipeline to enable it to transport up to 400,000 bar-rels per day by the end of the year. If shipper interest exceeds that added capacity, Tallgrass may expand the Pony Express Pipeline further through potential additional horsepower and/or looping to facilitate large-scale movements from Guernsey and northeast Colorado.

Targa Resources Corp. NextEra Energy Pipeline Hold-ings, LLC, an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Nex-tEra Energy Resources, LLC; WhiteWater Midstream, LLC, a portfolio company of Denham Capital Management and Ridgemont Energy Partners; and MPLX LP, announced the execution of a letter of intent (and associated term sheets) for the joint development of the proposed Whistler Pipeline Project, which will provide an outlet for increased natural gas production from the Permian Basin to growing markets along the Texas Gulf Coast. The Whistler Project is designed to transport approximately 2.0 billion cubic feet per day of natu-ral gas through approximately 450 miles of 42-inch pipeline from Waha, Texas to NextEra’s Agua Dulce market hub, with an additional approximately 170 miles of 30-inch pipe con-tinuing from Agua Dulce and terminating in Wharton County. Supply for the Whistler Project will be sourced from multiple upstream connections in both the Midland and Delaware Ba-sins, including direct connections to Targa plants through an approximately 27 mile 30-inch pipeline lateral, as well as a direct connection to the 1.4 Bcf/d Agua Blanca Pipeline, a

joint venture between WhiteWater, WPX Energy, MPLX and Targa, which crosses through the heart of the Delaware Ba-sin, including portions of Culberson, Loving, Pecos, Reeves, Winkler, and Ward counties. The Whistler Project would have access to the Nueces Header and premium markets at Agua Dulce, as well as along a northern extension through Corpus Christi to the Houston Ship Channel to serve markets along the Texas Gulf Coast. Targa, NextEra, MPLX and WhiteWater (and their respective producer customers) would collectively commit volumes in excess of 1.5 Bcf/day to the Whistler Proj-ect. The Project would begin operation in the fourth quarter of 2020, subject to execution of definitive agreements and the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals. The named parties have committed to be exclusive to the Project for a period of time sufficient to complete definitive agreements. The Whis-tler Project will be constructed by NextEra Energy Pipeline Holdings and operated by Targa. The Project is expected to be financed at the project level. In addition to the commit-ments of the project sponsors and their producer customers, the Whistler Project is in negotiations for additional firm trans-portation commitments and is expected to launch an open season in the coming months with respect to any remaining firm intrastate transportation capacity.

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company has received FERC approval for its Rivervale South to Market Project in Bergen, Hudson, and Union Counties, New Jersey. The proj-ect would include constructing 0.61 miles of 42-inch-diameter pipeline loop along Transco’s Mainline A (Bergen County); uprating 10.35 miles of the existing 24-inch-diameter North New Jersey Extension from the Paramus M&R station (Ber-gen County) to the Orange and Rockland M&R station (Ber-gen County). The North New Jersey Extension would be up-rated from a maximum allowable operating pressure of 650 pounds per square inch gauge (“psig”) to 812 psig; upgrading the existing valves, including overpressure protection valves, and yard piping, and related activities at the Paramus, Cen-tral Manhattan, Orange and Rockland, and Emerson M&R stations; and construct additional facilities, such as mainline valves, cathodic protection, internal inspection device launch-ers and receivers, and communication equipment. The me-ter station work is slated for February 2019, and the pipeline loop construction would begin in summer/fall 2019. Tentative scheduled in-service date is winter 2019/2020.

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company has received FERC approval for the Gateway Expansion Project involv-ing construction and operation of facilities Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company (Transco) in Essex and Passaic Counties, New Jersey. Transco proposes to perform the fol-lowing activities for construction of the project: Compressor Station (CS) 303 (Essex County, New Jersey), expansion of the existing building to include one new 33,000 horsepower electric-motor driven compression unit and ancillary equip-ment; install gas cooling equipment; extend existing security

PROPOSED PROJECTS & UPDATES PROPOSED PROJECTS & UPDATES fencing to encompass new equipment; and a new driveway to connect the new gas cooler location with CS 303. Roseland Meter and Regulator (M&R), Essex County, New Jersey - one new 36-inch ML block valve with automation controls; and ac-tuator modification on existing ML block valve. Paterson M&R, Passaic County, New Jersey - remove existing 12-inch head-ers, meter skid, building, and associated equipment; install a meter skid with two 6-inch ultrasonic meters with 12-inch inlet and outlet headers; install a new M&R building; install new re-mote terminal unit (RTU)/ gas chromatograph building; install new flow computer, radio, and an antenna/pole; and install a new condensate tank. The project has a targeted in-service date of Nov. 1, 2020.

V-Tex Logistics, LLC, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation, has signed an agreement with Magellan Pipeline Company, L.P., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. to jointly build an approximately 135-mile, 16-inch products pipeline from Houston to Hearne, Texas. In addition, Valero will sep-arately build a terminal in Hearne, a terminal in Williamson County, Texas, and an approximately 70-mile, 12-inch pipe-line connecting the two terminals. Valero’s expected cost for the projects is $380 million with targeted completion in mid-2019. Construction of these pipelines and terminals will provide a reliable fuel supply alternative for the fast-growing Central Texas marketplace. The new pipelines and terminals are expected to supply up to 60,000 barrels per day into Wil-liamson County.

Venture Global Plaquemines LNG, LLC (Plaquemines LNG) and Venture Global Gator Express, LLC (Gator Ex-press Pipeline) have received a favorable Environmental Im-pact Statement from the FERC to construct a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal and pipeline facilities located in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Together the proposals are referred to as the Plaquemines LNG and Project or Proj-ect. Plaquemines LNG and Gator Express Pipeline are pro-posing to construct and operate a new LNG export terminal and associated facilities along the west bank of the Missis-sippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana (Terminal) and to construct and operate two new 42-inch diameter natural gas pipeline laterals that will connect the Terminal to the pipe-line facilities of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company and Texas Eastern Transmission. The two parallel and adjacent laterals (11.7 and 15.1 miles long) would be operated at an MAOP of 1,200 pounds per square inch and will be designed to provide firm transportation capacity of approximately 1,970,000 Dt/d to the Terminal. Total cost of the pipeline portion of the project is estimated to be approximately 284 million dollars.

WhiteWater Midstream, LLC announced that it is holding a binding Open Season to solicit commitments for firm natu-ral gas transportation service to develop and construct a new interstate pipeline connecting multiple receipt points in Eddy

County, New Mexico to delivery points in Northern Culber-son County, Texas. The project includes the construction of a 24-inch natural gas pipeline and associated metering sta-tions in Eddy County, New Mexico connecting multiple receipt points to one or more delivery points in Northern Culberson County, Texas. The proposed Steady Eddy Pipeline project would provide approximately 500,000 MMBtu/d of interstate gas transportation service to New Mexico gas processors, al-lowing them access to multiple delivery point options in New Mexico and Texas. WWM is conducting this binding open sea-son to determine customer needs for firm natural gas trans-portation service between receipt points located in and from Eddy County to multiple delivery points in and to New Mexico and Texas. The Open Season commenced on Wednesday, January 9, 2019 and will conclude at 5:00 PM CST on Friday February 15, 2019.

Williams and Brazos Midstream have agreed to enter into a joint venture in the Delaware Basin. Under terms of the agree-ment, Williams will contribute its existing Delaware Basin as-sets to the Partnership, in exchange for a 15 percent minority position in the joint venture. The contribution of the Williams assets will expand the footprint of the current Brazos system and the combined capabilities of the Partnership will provide existing and prospective customers with an enhanced suite of services. Brazos – with an 85 percent ownership in the joint venture – will operate pro-forma 725 miles of gas gathering pipelines, 260 MMcf/d of natural gas processing, 75 miles of crude oil gathering pipelines, and 75,000 barrels of oil stor-age, located across Reeves, Loving, Ward, Winkler, Pecos, and Culberson counties in Texas. In addition, Brazos is cur-rently constructing its previously announced 200 MMcf/d Co-manche III natural gas processing plant to be fully operational by first quarter 2019, bringing the Partnership’s total operated processing capacity in the Delaware Basin to 460 MMcf/d. The joint venture will be supported by over 500,000 acres of long-term dedications currently under full-field horizontal develop-ment from leading major and independent oil and gas pro-ducers. As part of the transaction, Williams and Brazos have also entered into an agreement to jointly develop natural gas residue solutions to further benefit Delaware Basin producers.

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TransCanada reported it will begin clearing trees and foli-age by February 1, 2019 for the northern route of its planned Keystone XL pipeline. Recently, the National Energy Board (NEB) announced it had approved the pipeline company’s request to do some winter clearing work. The NEB said the company had satisfied requirements to remove trees and shrubs around Hardisty, Alberta, and further south in a block known as Keystone’s north spread. The pipeline, expected to cost $8-billion, would carry 830,000 barrels of crude a day from Hardisty to Nebraska. The pipeline would then connect with the original Keystone that runs to refineries in Texas.

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Don Baldridge, president of commercial for DCP Midstream, has been elected chairman of the Texas Pipeline Associa-tion (TPA). TPA is the largest state trade association in the country that solely represents the interests of the intrastate pipeline network. The association formally made the an-nouncement recently at its annual meeting, held at the Hilton Double Tree Hotel in downtown Houston.

“Don’s deep-rooted industry experience will be invaluable to the Texas Pipeline Association and its member companies,” said TPA President Thure Cannon. "I look forward to working with him on the issues that face our industry during the 86th legislative session.”

Baldridge has more than 20 years of experience in the en-ergy industry, including commercial, trading and business development activities. In his current role, he is responsible for all commercial activity for gathering and processing and natural gas liquids (NGL) logistics, as well as origination, business development, optimization, contract administra-tion, gas control, and marketing and trading. Previously, Bal-dridge was president of the marketing and logistics business unit for DCP Midstream, responsible for NGLs and natu-ral gas pipeline and storage assets, as well as marketing and trading activities. Prior to that, he was vice president of business development of DCP Midstream, responsible for

business development and corporate development activi-ties coordinated with DCP Midstream Partners. He began his career with the company in 2005 as director of corporate development managing acquisition evaluation and nego-tiations for multiple midstream acquisition opportunities. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Virginia and a master’s in business administration from the University of Denver.

“The staff and membership of TPA has established a strong reputation of collaboration, safety, and advocacy, and I am proud to serve such a remarkable organization through this role,” said Baldridge.

ABOUT TPATexas Pipeline Association (TPA), the largest state trade as-sociation in the country representing solely the interests of the intrastate pipeline network, is the primary resource for information regarding the Texas pipeline industry. TPA pro-vides advocacy on issues related to pipeline safety, environ-mental regulations, taxation and legislation. Member com-panies and their representatives commit to conductingtheir business in accordance with integrity, honest communica-tion, fair right-of-way acquisition, respectful construction and safe operations.

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Consolidated Edison, Inc., a New York utility provider, an-nounced in January a moratorium on new natural gas cus-tomers in Westchester County, beginning on March 15. The reason given by the utility was "new demand for gas is reaching the limits of the current supplies to our service area." It was reported that New York State's reluctance to construct new natural gas pipelines is preventing adequate supplies from reaching growing economic centers in New York City, Long Island and Yonkers.

In neighboring New England, the shortage of natural gas infrastructure is more widespread.

The lack of pipeline infrastructure in the Northeast has re-sulted in some of the highest electricity rates in the nation for families and business—and it will only get worse, ac-cording to a new report by the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy.

"The New England states used to be dependent on coal, oil, nuclear and hydroelectricity," said Dan Kish, senior fel-low at the Institute for Energy Research. "And they've shift-ed quickly to natural gas for generation, and they've shifted so fast that it's caused huge draws of natural gas into the system pipelines without increasing infrastructure."

Meanwhile, continued development of shale oil and gas in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and elsewhere has helped reduce U.S. dependence on foreign energy and brought back thousands of manufacturing jobs. However, the lack of access to markets in the Northeast will cost those states jobs and revenue, which is also covered in the report from the Global Energy Institute.

The United States is the world's largest producer of natural gas and has among the lowest natural gas prices, espe-cially in regions where natural gas is produced. The lack of supply in New England is blamed on political opposition to the use of fossil fuels. Industry analysts agree that the current pipeline infra-structure is insufficient to meet natural gas demand in New England.

"We do have congested pipelines and obstructed pipe-lines," said Stephen Leahy, vice president for policy and analysis at the Northeast Gas Association. "We have add-ed incremental projects at different points for gas utility de-mand. But larger proposed projects have not progressed. There's a lot of opposition to any additional energy infrastructure in the region."

It was stated that the main opposition to larger pipeline projects originates from environmental concerns. It was also reported that 15 years ago these same voices were largely in favor of natural gas to replace coal and fuel oil in the region's energy market.

A leading environmental voice in opposition to natural gas pipelines in the Northeast is the National Resource De-fense Council (NRDC). The environmental advocacy group has criticized ISO New England, a regional electric power transmission system operator, for proposing new pipeline infrastructure.MARINER EAST 2 PIPELINE IS NOW TRANSPORTING NATURAL GAS LIQUIDS FROM EASTERN OHIO

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Energy Transfer LP announced that its Mariner East 2 nat-ural gas liquids (NGLs) pipeline is in service, available for both interstate and intrastate service. The 350-mile NGL pipeline transports domestically produced ethane, propane and butane east from processing plants in Ohio across West Virginia and Pennsylvania to Energy Transfer’s Marcus Hook Industrial Complex in Delaware County, PA, where the NGLs are stored for distribution to local, domestic and waterborne markets. Mariner East 2 is part of Energy Transfer’s Mariner East system of pipelines designed to provide much-needed NGL takeaway capacity for the Marcellus and Utica Shale pro-duction areas in Eastern Ohio, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania. The Mariner East 2X pipeline, which par-allels Mariner East 2, is expected to be in service in late 2019. The Mariner East system will provide both opera-tional flexibility and enhanced security of NGL supply from producing areas to key markets in the region and beyond.

According to a 2015 economic impact study by EConsult Solutions, the total impact from the construction of the Mari-ner East pipelines is estimated to be more than $9.1 billion in Pennsylvania alone. When complete, the projects will have provided more than 9,500 construction jobs per year for six years, with associated earnings totaling more than $2.7 billion.

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RESIDENTS OF NORTHEASTERN STATES ARE STRUGGLING WITH INCREASED ELECTRICITY COSTS AND AN UNRELIABLE ENERGY SUPPLY AS ELECTED OFFICIALS CONTEMPLATE EXPANDING NATURAL GAS PIPELINES IN THE REGION.

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Payden Artz hunting with friends

MXP Environmental Lead Team

Tootie McCrory enjoying some family time

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Congratulations to Randy Byers for being nominated for Pipeliner of the Year by the Tulsa Pipeliners Club

Bill Dillman and wife, Monica

TransCanada MXP ProjectSpread 8 enjoying dinner at Texas de Brazil

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Jimmy James, 73, of Thornton died Sunday, January 13, 2019. He was born January 8, 1946 in Camden to the late Gurtman and Jewel White James. Jimmy married Diane (Domanski) on Feb 12, 1969. He was a loving husband, father, and grandfather. He loved the outdoors. He retired from Associated Pipeline Con-

tractors in 2011 and was a member of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 324 for 50 years. He was an active member of Thornton First Baptist Church. He is preceded in death by his parents and his wife. He is survived by his son, Charles James and daughter-in-law Beth James of Bryant; daughter, Lisa Diane Ashmore, and son-in-law, Drake Ashmore of Hot Springs; sister, Barba-ra Sue Whitley of Thornton; grandchildren, Jared James, Mary Beth James, Alder Ashmore, Juniper Ashmore, Cedar Ashmore, and Sarah Ashmore.

Earnest Henry Jarvis, 75, of Havana, FL, passed away peacefully in his sleep on January 4, 2019. Earnest Henry Jar-vis was born March 14, 1943 in Houston, Texas to the late Earl and Jewell Gantt. He proudly served in the United States Army and later became a welder for the pipe-line. He is an active member of the Goose

Creek Masonic lodge of Houston, Texas and proud mem-ber of the UA local #234 Plumbers and Pipefitters Union. He is survived by his (3) children; Jade Elene Dunkle, Nicole Anne Jarvis and Jack Earl Jarvis.

Bernard Gaston was a World War 2 vet-eran and served with the Army Air Corps from August 30, 1943 through November 19, 1945 and was a member of the 379th Bomb Group. He was trained as a fight-er pilot but at the turn of the war, pilots weren’t needed as much as were person-nel for B-17’s. However, being trained as

a pilot he understood how to calculate where to aim and was highly valued as a gunner. Many times, the plane he was in was shot up. One time, shrapnel flack tore through the plane and through his flight suit, causing him to lose heat in freezing weather. He developed frost bite so badly that he permanently lost much of the feeling in his hands and feet. Flying in the loud planes, he also lost part of his hearing. During his time in the Air Corps, he was given 2 Purple Hearts as well as many other medals and commen-dations. After he returned from the War, he was driving one day and almost ran over a beautiful young brunette who was crossing the street. She turned and gave him what would become her famous “Eddie glare”. He was totally mesmerized and fell hard in love from that day forward, finally convincing her to marry him when she turned 18.

They had a wonderful marriage for 59 years. Bernard had many interests. He enjoyed playing and watching baseball. He enjoyed golfing, hunting and fishing. He was an expert at frying catfish (much to his daughter-in-law’s delight!) He LOVED driving fast. When he was young, he fixed up his car to go faster than the local police cars. They finally got smart and would just go to his house and wait for him to come home! He enjoyed building race cars. He enjoyed attending the Indianapolis 500 and sitting in AJ Foyt’s pit. He loved working on cars, planes and anything with an en-gine. He could fix almost everything, especially anything mechanical. In fact, he studied mechanical engineering and math on the GI bill at Nebraska University. He and his beloved wife, Eddie, enjoyed square dancing and ballroom dancing together. They spent many hours playing cards or dominoes with family and friends. Bernard worked as a pipeline welder, working on the Alaskan pipeline for several years. He had many interesting stories about his time in Alaska, such as telling about the Grizzly bears that would show up at their camps and worksites or telling how fast “spit” would freeze before it hit the ground. Bernard was a member of the Pipeliners Union 798 for 66 years. After Bernard retired from welding in his 50’s, he went back to school and became a Dental Laboratory Technician. He also became Certified working on small engines. He was talented artistically and spent many hours creating and building jewelry. He also enjoyed wood working and carv-ing and creating something from old pieces of wood. Later in life, he worked as a painter for his brother-in-law’s com-mercial paint company. He was sought after to do remod-eling and refinishing home projects because of his work-ethic and the quality of his work. He loved flying with his brother-in-law, Jack, in Jack’s plane. Bernard loved visiting museums, especially about planes, aircraft and discussing WWII adventures with his brothers-in-law and other veter-ans. He loved to talk to people and never knew a stranger. But he especially LOVED being with his family and enjoyed his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Clearly Bernard had many wonderful life experiences. However, they pale in comparison to the single greatest experience of his 94 years. God’s faithfulness was abundantly on display when Bernard fully surrendered his heart to the Lord just TWO WEEKS before the Lord called him home. He is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Randall & Brenda Gas-ton; his grandchildren, Brad and Michelle Womack, Deb-bie Gerards, JJ and Trisha Grant, Nicholas and Nikki Gas-ton, Chris Grant, Casey and Rachael McGowan, Wes and Charity Desmond; and 19 great-grandchildren. Bernard was preceded in death by his loving wife, Eddie Bob Gas-ton, of nearly 60 years and his son, Bernard Ray Grant. He was a friend to all and will be greatly missed.

OBITUARIES Memorial services for Bryan Joe Harper were held on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at the First Baptist Church in Ardmore with Dr. Alton Fannin officiating. Bryan was born November 2, 1952 in Snyder, TX. to Dwayne Aubrey Harper and Betty Jo (Chesher) Harper. He passed this life on January 14, 2019 in Keller, TX. Bryan

grew up in Oklahoma City, OK and graduated from North-west Classen High School in 1970. He was named all city, all conference Receiver in Football and offered a scholar-ship to UT El Paso. On November 4, 1977 he married Kathy Ann Wakefield and they spent the next 41 years together. Bryan was an avid Horseracing fan. He enjoyed spend-ing time at Saratoga Race Track in Saratoga Springs NY. In 1976 Bryan started his career in the pipeline industry. Throughout his career, he was a pipeline construction com-pany Owner, Inspector, Construction Manager and Project Manager. He was known to many as a great manager, col-league and loyal friend in the Pipeline Industry. One of his biggest passions was his love for Baseball and the Boston Red Sox. Bryan also had many hobbies including watching and studying horseracing, listening to music, attending his grandchildren’s football and hockey games, dance recitals and cheer competitions. He also enjoyed traveling to the west coast and playing Blackjack. He is survived by his wife of the home, Kathy Ann Harper (Wakefield); Father, Dwayne Aubrey Harper and his wife Trevis; Daughters, Haylee Miller and her husband Jason, Dana Harper, Jessica Pletcher and her husband Garrett; Sons, Sean Harper and his wife Su-zanne, Blu Harper; brother, Aubrey Harper and his wife Ann; sister, Vicki Wallace and her husband Gil; grandchildren, Kylee Harper, Casey Harper, Jacilyn Kelley, Dawson Miller, Steelee Harper, Makinley Miller, Presley Harper, Allison Kel-ley, Landon Harper, Juliet Pletcher, Colton Pletcher, Luke Elvington, and great granddaughter Alaina Kelley. He was preceded in death by his mother, Betty Jo Harper. In lieu of flowers, please donate to Bryan’s favorite charity St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. Donations can be made at Stjude.org.

C. Hubert Gragg was born March 4, 1918, in Carthage, MO to Robert Lenord and Elizabeth Lou Gragg. He died Jan. 7, 2019 at his home in Newcastle, OK. He was the eldest of six children. His father moved the family to the promising boom-town of Burkburnett, Texas in 1922. There he met Naomi Holt. They began their 50

years of marriage on Nov. 15, 1939. As Hubert's gas pipeline construction business grew, they moved to Oklahoma City where they raised 4 boys: sons Stephen, Philip, and Jona-than and their nephew, Charles Pfeiffer, whom they consid-ered the son of their hearts. The boys' activities and those of their children were always a focus of Hubert's life. He loved all his family. Nothing pleased him more than having all his

siblings, their children and grandchildren and friends gath-ered at his home where they feasted on food from the family chefs, sang old hymns, told stories, made new memories and laughed out loud. Hubert's life was full of adventure, beginning with his defense of his father's grocery store from Pretty Boy Floyd. He founded C&H Construction to take gas transmission pipelines to 28 of the 48 contiguous states and in Canada, where he built the first natural gas pipeline from Niagara to Toronto. He found himself threatened by mem-bers of organized crime in New Jersey, but did not give in to their demands. Hubert was always a serious participant in politics, was instrumental in the election of US Presidents, Oklahoma Governors of both parties, and Mayors of Ed-mond. He was a friend to presidents and national business leaders. He served on the Oklahoma Highway Commission under three administrations. He owned property in down-town Edmond which he developed to house several retail stores, including Nomi's Ark and Rendezvous Restaurant which he and Naomi owned and operated with Steve and his wife Saundra. Hubert was active in local civic life as well, particularly in Edmond where he and Naomi moved in 1960. Their home was always open for political and charity events and was the scene of many family gatherings. When asked to be a sponsor, advertiser or donor to community and school events, he always helped. He was particularly interested in higher education at UCO and OSU. In 2007, OSU awarded him an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Hu-mane Letters in recognition of his service to the University. Hubert was a 32nd Degree Mason. He was associated with that organization for 74 years; he was also a Jester and a Shriner. He contributed many hours of his time in service to the charities associated with those groups. Hubert shared his wealth of stories (most of which were true), jokes, and laughter. He greeted everyone with a smile and kindness. He entered in to everything with enthusiasm. He was an unforgettable one of a kind whose memory will long be car-ried in the hearts of those who knew and loved him. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife Naomi; his par-ents; his brother, Ellis; his sisters, Opal Sykes and Wanda Cain; his sons, Stephen and Philip and daughter-in-law Deborah, Charles' wife, Brigitte, and his second wife, Rae. He is survived by his brothers, Robert (Tressie) Gragg and Melvin (Bobbie) Gragg and son, Jonathan and grandson, Conrad Gragg; grandson, Zachary (Aubry) Gragg and his children Owen, Gage and Fiona; Charles Pfeiffer, and his children Jonathan (Katharina) Pfeiffer (children Isabella and Stephen), Jennifer (Joseph) Durham (children Isa Mae and Anja), Joanna (Jeff) Gisvold (children Grant and Ruby); his daughter-in-law Saundra Gragg Naifeh; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and their children. The family requests donations to the Gragg Memorial Endowment at UCO in lieu of flowers. The family expresses its gratitude to Tim Ward, Hubert's friend and neighbor of many years. Hubert was blessed to have devoted, loving and capable caregivers: Misty, Cheryl and Tabitha.

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